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... "We issue the peremptory writ directing the respondents to immediately comply with L.B. 20," the court said in its ruling.

Five Nebraska Supreme Court justices affirmed felons' right to vote in the upcoming election while two opposed the majority decision. About 7,000 felons are affected by the ruling.

"Give the sheer scale of disenfranchisement that this decision corrects, there is no question that it will be remembered as one of our state's most consequential voting rights decisions," Jane Seu, legal counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Nebraska, said in a prepared statement. ...